Prof. Francis Kaming Chan
Internationally Recognised Expert in Necroptosis
Professor Francis Chan is a distinguished professor at Zhejiang University School of Basic Medical Sciences, the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the Liangzhu Laboratory. He is also a visiting professor at the Department of Immunology at Duke University in the United States. Professor Chan is an internationally recognised expert in necroptosis and the discoverer of the Receptor Interacting Protein Kinase 3 (RIPK3). He has long been engaged in teaching and research in immunology and cell biology. He is currently dedicated to studying the signalling pathways of necroptosis, its role in tissue repair, and its function in various inflammatory diseases. His team has published more than 80 high-level papers, including 7 in Nature and its sub-journals, 5 in Science and its sub-journals, and 14 in Cell and its sub-journals. Professor Chan, a world-renowned scholar in cell death and immunology, has organised the Gordon Research Conference Cell Death as the conference chair and is an editorial board member of the internationally renowned journal Cell Death and Differentiation. He has received the New Investigator Award from the Cancer Research Institute in New York, the New Investigator Award from the Smith Family Foundation, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America Senior Scholar Award, etc.